I hate to sound like Rex Reed, but aside from Willem Dafoe's sterling portrayal of the caring motel manager, this film did nothing for me. I found it the most condescending film about poor people I've ever seen. The herky-jerky hand-held camera movements made me dizzy. The bratty kids gave me a head...

No, Three Billboards isn't dead. In fact, I suspect it will have more first place Oscar votes for Best Picture than other nominee. If it weren't for the damn preferential ballot I'd say it would coast to a win. If they have to go to a third or fourth preference to hit 50% plus one, it could still be...

You can go all the way back to Dickens and beyond to find literary works that deal with the hypocrisy and wheeling-dealing within the legal profession, but this is the only film I've seen in which the all-pervasive problems associated with plea bargaining are shown to be the main culprit. As of 2013...

I hadn't thought about the NRA being brought up on RICO charges, but that would be icing on the cake. The end of the NRA and the GOP as we know them at the same time. One couldn't hope for a better outcome. Be careful what you wish for. Too much power on one side of the ideological scale is not nec...

I hadn't thought about the NRA being brought up on RICO charges, but that would be icing on the cake. The end of the NRA and the GOP as we know them at the same time. One couldn't hope for a better outcome.

I stayed away in order to watch this on BBC America without knowing what the winners were. A few minor surprises, but no major ones. A few observations: Joanna Lumley made a great host. Selma Hayek made the best presentation saying she was there in this year of the woman to honor the men or somethin...

Another one. This one isn't as infuriating as the others. They didn't say who this person was but I suspect it's an editor since he (or she) said a lot about it. Well, that and the fact that the headline literally says "Editor thinks..." And nothing else other than Picture and Score. Actu...

I, too, finally caught up with Roman J. Israel and found to my surprise based on all the badmouthing the film has gotten, that I liked it. I found the first half riveting. I didn't like the direction it took in the second half, but I didn't find it confusing. I thought this was Denzel Washington's b...

James Ivory, nominated for Adapted Screenplay for Call Me By Your Name , was not only a work partner, but a romantic partner, with Ismail Merchant. Together, they were co-nominated three times - Ivory for directing and Merchant for producing (Picture) - the same film, for A Room With A View , Howar...

The list seems to be complete, but the list of non-winning nominees isn't all that expansive. This is all I could think of: Danny Aiello, Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) Jane Alexander, Testament (Lynne Littman) Lauren Bacall, The Mirror Has Two Faces (Barbra Streisand) Sandra Bullock, Gravity (Alfon...

This one should be a non-starter. The incident occurred years ago, was highly publicized at the time and put to rest. Who are these 13,000 troublemakers who signed the petition? Obviously not Academy members, or at least not all of them. The Academy only has about 6,000 members. Kobe Bryant's love l...